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brushwood

[bruhsh-wood] / ˈbrʌʃˌwʊd /


NOUN
copse
Synonyms


NOUN
undergrowth
Synonyms
STRONG




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She deftly manoeuvres a tractor-load of brushwood which she's spent the afternoon cutting from common land owned jointly by the community.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023

Las Provincias, a regional newspaper, reported police believe that the blaze may have been started by a spark from a machine used to gather brushwood.

From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2023

Twigs of brushwood lie around a mud oven used for cooking.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020

Readers today are unlikely to confuse an adolescent with an armload of brushwood used for fences and hedges.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 2, 2019

According to Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus placed the very same type of brushwood layer in a ship that he had built.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler


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